Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Jan 2020)

An Improved Backward/Forward Sweep Power Flow Method Based on a New Network Information Organization for Radial Distribution Systems

  • Saad Ouali,
  • Abdeljabbar Cherkaoui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/5643410
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020

Abstract

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This paper presents a load flow algorithm based on the backward/forward sweep principle, flexible with network topology changes, with an improvement in ensuring a minimum number of searching for connections between nodes in the calculation sequence in the forward and the backward sweep, by organizing the radial distribution system information into a main line and its derivations. The proposed load flow analysis is easy to implement and does not require the use of any complex renumbering of branches and nodes, or any matrix calculation, with the only use of linear equations based on Kirchhoff’s formulation.